For instance, I feel that one of the brilliances of "Incurable (The 'All You Zombies' Remix)" is the way it destabilizes any permanent subject, as the levels of rich indebtedness reveal.
Well, the wonderful thing is the way in which I quite literally couldn't have done it by myself; the remix needs to be a remix in order to work.
I have a kind of control that my women do not, because they've no idea what's going on.
Really? I wonder.
(Is the Muse passive?)
Hmm. Under the typical metaphor, the artist is passive and the Muse is active, by inspiring. But if we have an active artist, is her relation to the Muse that of violation, of theft? The Muse is a sort of divine feminine, but is it the sort of divine feminism which is always-already contrasted with an earthly feminine (cf. the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception), to the detriment of the latter?
I think in the end both are equally passive: the Muse cannot help but to produce inspiration, and the artist cannot help but to take it from her. As in all things, we can construct agency where we will (where to speak of us constructing agency is to already have constructed it).
I am sure there are many things in heaven and Earth I would not believe.
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Date: 2007-05-01 12:02 am (UTC)Well, the wonderful thing is the way in which I quite literally couldn't have done it by myself; the remix needs to be a remix in order to work.
I have a kind of control that my women do not, because they've no idea what's going on.
Really? I wonder.
(Is the Muse passive?)
Hmm. Under the typical metaphor, the artist is passive and the Muse is active, by inspiring. But if we have an active artist, is her relation to the Muse that of violation, of theft? The Muse is a sort of divine feminine, but is it the sort of divine feminism which is always-already contrasted with an earthly feminine (cf. the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception), to the detriment of the latter?
I think in the end both are equally passive: the Muse cannot help but to produce inspiration, and the artist cannot help but to take it from her. As in all things, we can construct agency where we will (where to speak of us constructing agency is to already have constructed it).
I am sure there are many things in heaven and Earth I would not believe.